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May 2018

Dear colleagues and friends: As President of the Organizing Committee of the 15th Congress of the Spanish Society of Pain, which will take place in Palma de Mallorca between May 24-26 2018, it is an honor and a pleasure to welcome you to our city, in our behalf and on behalf of our Society (SED).

July 2018

This years meeting has two themes. We will be examining the problems of the language we and our patients use in the interface between us, both as regards the dangers of careless use of language by practitioners and the inadequacy of language for expressing suffering. Our second theme of stress and burnout is unfortunately topical with mounting evidence that this is becoming increasingly prevalent not just in pain medicine but in the health professions generally. These themes overlap in the way the language we use to ourselves can aggravate our problems. This meeting will take place in the beautiful surroundings of Launde Abbey in the heart of the English countryside, and the program designed to maximize the time for discussion.

This course aims to further develop skills of assessing and treating complex chronic pain patients. This practical and interactive course develops an evidence based approach to assessment, examination and formulation of a diagnosis and designing a comprehensive management plan. This pain course will be of help to Anaesthetic, Neurosurgery and Pain Trainees. Pain Consultants, General Practitioners with Special Interest in Pain Medicine, Advanced Nurse Practitioners and Senior Physiotherapists with Specialist Interest in the management of chronic pain.

September 2018

The 5th Society for Ultrasound in Anaesthesia (SUA) Chronic Pain Interventions Workshop will take place at the Royal College of Physicians, London, UK on 4th September 2018 An expert faculty will cover a wide variety of chronic pain procedures under ultrasound guidance with live models.
Workshop delegates will be given access to an online library of lectures and resources in advance for additional training and in order to maximize the hands-on scanning practice.

Learn to perform ultrasound guided pain interventions from experts in this small group hands on workshop. The course will cover cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral interventions and is ideal for those practicing pain medicine.

NEURON 2018, a special program that involves latest innovative treatment and prevention of Neurological Disorders may help people with multiple sclerosis (MS). On behalf of the Scientific Committee, World Neuron Diseases Congress is going to be held in the Bucharest, Romania during September 13-15, 2018.

The 2018 edition of the Worldwide Day Hundred Cities Against Pain is scheduled on Saturday, October 6th; the event will involve more than 100 Italian and foreign cities, and more than 90 Italian hospitals to raise awareness of the problem of chronic pain and its treatment. During the same week, the information campaign on chronic pain will be organized in the hospitals involved in the Day. Individuals, patients, doctors, associations, and other organizations can join the celebration of the Worldwide Day in different ways: by organizing their own events in cities or hospitals and/or by supporting the initiative website and social networks.

October 2018

SIS is bringing hands-on lumbar intervention training to Ioannina, Greece exclusively for SIS members based in Europe. You will experience 8 hours of hands-on lab instruction with phantom spine models and 5.75 hours of lectures, breakout sessions, and discussions with your instructors.

This year the Portuguese Association for the Study of Pain gathers two different events (RIAD meeting+ APED Congress) under the headline "Movement towards the future". The RIAD meeting joins professionals from SED, FEDELAT and APED to discuss 4 central themes - Education; Pharmacology; Cancer pain and Palliative Care and Interventional Pain Treatments. The APED meeting has a broad set of themes that go from neurobiology of pain to treatment of complex pain settings. Oncological and non oncological pain; neuromodulation; intervention; the continuum of acute pain, etc. APED will launch during the congress the campaign about movement benefits.

This course aims to develop skills of assessing and treating pain related to cancer and its treatment. This interactive course develops an evidence-based approach to assessment, and formulating diagnosis and designing a comprehensive management plan including pain management. The emphasis is on a multidisciplinary approach to managing pain related to cancer. Learning objectives of this course are in line with EFIC Core Curriculum for managing pain related to cancer as below.

Building on the lumbar foundation, the Advanced Lumbar Bio-Skills Lab progresses your knowledge in this region. This course contains 8.75 hours of hands-on lab instruction, 4.25 hours of lecture and breakout sessions, and have an hour for discussion with your instructors.

Opioids still form the mainstay of many types of pain for both cancer and non-malignant pains. Although there is evidence for their effect, opioids also are associated with significant side effects in the short and long term.